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Enclos:

LONDON

THE

CHAMBER

OF

INCORPORATED

COMMERCE

The Right Honorable

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11the April 1885.

84-85, KING WILLIAM STREET.

LONDON, E. C.

C. U.

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The Earl of Derby 1. Ith Colonies

If I's Secretary of State for the Colonies Colonial Office S.W.

My Lord I have the house to inform your

lordships that a telegrame from the Wong. / Long Chamber of Commerce (copy of which is enclosed) was considered at the Monthly bouncil Meeding of this Chamber on the ghic

the uns, and it was decided that the attention of HC. M's Government should be immediately called to the fact, that, telegraphic communication between this country, and the Chinese Treaty Ports, passes on the one hand via Russia and Denmark, and on the other through French Cerritory via Saigon.

M-

was

felt to be highly desirable that telegraphic communication with the Chinese Treaty Ports, and expecially with the English Colony at Hong-Kong, should be entirely under English control; and, also, in view of present political situation in the

East

every possible security in the way of defences and armaments should be provided for

the

the

important

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